德國波恩大學哲學博士，現任陝西社科院宗教研究所副研究員，香港中文大學文學院宗教倫理與中國文化研究中心訪問學人。研究方向為宗教學理論、天主教史、中西文化交流史等。出版專著有《王徵評傳》。英文專著： Life, Thought and Image of Confucian-Christian, Wang Zheng in Late Ming China（晚明儒家基督徒王征的生平、思想及形象）,比利時魯汶大學出版社。先後在《世界宗教研究》《宗教學研究》《中國宗教》《蘭州大學學報 （社科版）》《基督宗教研究》《中國天主教》等期刊發表論文 20餘篇。

With a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Bonn, Dr Ding is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences and a Visiting Scholar at the Research Centre for Religious Ethics and Chinese Culture, Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the theory of religious studies, the history of Catholic church in China, and the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West. He has published one monograph titled A Critical Biography of Wang Zheng and an English-language work, Life, Thought and Image of Confucian-Christian, Wang Zheng in Late Ming China. He has also published over 20 articles in journals such as Studies in World Religions, Religious Studies, Chinese Religion, Christian Studies, and Chinese Catholicism.